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Frontiers in North Africa

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George Joffe

From Boundaries and State Territory in the Middle East and North Africa. MENAS Press, 1987
© 2002, revised version used by permission of the author
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(a) Borders with Algeria


Morocco's borders with Algeria are the result of a complex series of interlinked problems of delimitation that relate largely to internal French administrative disputes. They also relate to the pattern of French occupation of Morocco, as French forces nibbled away at the periphery of the Sharifian empire in the closing years of the nineteenth century (Brignon 1967; 338). This was particularly significant in the period 1899-1901, although French encroachment continued up to 1910 before France was able to extract an agreement from the Moroccan sultan, Moulay Abd al-Hafidh, that further encroachment was in support of Moroccan authority (Dunn 1977; 26).

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